As a part of the Disassemble the Arts, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s arts and accessibility program, the AGGV will be offering a series of artists and curators talks. In this talk, independent curator Amanda Cachia will discuss her curatorial practice which centers around care and accessibility in exhibitions and museums from a disability perspective. Recent exhibitions to be discussed include Automatisme Ambulatoire (2019), Sweet Gongs Vibrating (2016), and Flesh of the World (2015). Cachia will also explore what “creative access” might now mean in the museum in the age of COVID-19 and post-coronavirus, and how museums might be more intentional in meaningful intersectional approaches towards access in response to the civil unrest of 2020.

Amanda Cachia received her PhD in Art History, Theory & Criticism at the University of California San Diego in Spring 2017, and is an independent curator and critic from Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art; curatorial studies and activism; exhibition design and access; decolonizing the museum; and the politics of disability in visual culture. Cachia has curated approximately 40 exhibitions, many of which contain social justice themes and content. She is an art history lecturer for Otis College of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, and California State University Long Beach. She is currently preparing her manuscript regarding the work of contemporary disabled artists, solicited by Duke University Press, in addition to editing a volume of essays with Routledge entitled Curating Access: Contemporary Art and Creative Accommodation.

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria sits on the unceded and traditional territory of the Lkwungen-speaking peoples, today known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and WSÁNEĆ First Nations.As a part of the Disassemble the Arts, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s arts and accessibility program, the AGGV will be offering a series of artists and curators talks. In this talk, independent curator Amanda Cachia will discuss her curatorial practice which centers around care and accessibility in exhibitions and museums from a disability  …

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Changing Your View
Changing Your View
3:20

Changing Your View

3:20

Leaving the Webinar
Leaving the Webinar
4:35

Leaving the Webinar

4:35

additional new modes of access in the museum for disabled people
additional new modes of access in the museum for disabled people
11:33

additional new modes of access in the museum for disabled people

11:33

Creative access in the time of COVID-19
Creative access in the time of COVID-19
15:40

Creative access in the time of COVID-19

15:40

Hanging artwork on wall
Hanging artwork on wall
29:52

Hanging artwork on wall

29:52

Screen-reader friendly websites
Screen-reader friendly websites
31:27

Screen-reader friendly websites

31:27

Audio description/verbal imaging
Audio description/verbal imaging
33:53

Audio description/verbal imaging

33:53

Audio description exercise
Audio description exercise
35:34

Audio description exercise

35:34